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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"self-injury"”.
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Self-Injury Knowledge and Peer Perceptions among Members of Internet Self-Injury Groups
Members of 26 MySpace social groups for self-injury (SI) provided data for this study investigating knowledge of SI, friends’ perceptions of SI, and the impact of online activity on SI. This study proposes that people who have belonged to these online SI groups for longer periods have higher levels …
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Self Injury in 1p36 deletion syndrome
… When behavioural features have been reported, self-injury and aggression are noted. This study aimed to describe these behaviours and investigate aetiology. The prevalence of self-injurious and aggressive behaviour in 1p36 deletion syndrome (n=23) were compared with three matched syndrome …
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Hidden stories: Self-injury, hope, and narratives
The widespread perception of self-injury places an emphasis on the negative aspects of this behaviour. It is seen by many as a dangerous, self-destructive act, and psychopathology. However, there is a lesser-known view that constructs selfinjury as a hopeful behaviour, through which a person …
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Self-Injury in the Schools: A Survey of Educators
Self-injury (SI) is a growing concern for professionals working in educational settings who desire more information on SI and express a lack of confidence in working with youth who self injure (Carlson, DeGreer, Deur, & Fenton, 2005; Heath, Toste, & Beettam, 2008). A sample of 263 teachers from a …
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Identifying And Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among College Students
<p>Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) behavior in college students </p> <p>at an urban university was studied. Relations between NSSI </p> <p>and poor quality relationships with their parents and peers, as </p> <p>well as deficient coping and help-seeking behavior were examined </p> <p>from an …
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Suicide Research: Addressing the Motivational Differences in Self-Injury
… does not consistently differentiate between self-injuring patients who wanted to die from their injury and those who wanted to live, when defining a “suicidal act” (Silverman, Berman, Sanddal, O'Carroll P, & Joiner, 2007a). This lack of standard categorization creates significant barriers to …
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Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Parental Support, and Family Resilience
… when a child had engaged in nonsuicidal self-injury. Twenty parents participated in a quantitative web survey, and 5 went on to complete follow-up qualitative interviews. Parents reported adequate levels of global social support as measured by the Social Provision Scale and the Social …
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Humanity Undone, A practice led enquiry into self-injury
This thesis enquires into my lived experience of self-injury (cutting my own skin), asking to what extent can moving image, sound and performance in the context of art installation reveal an understanding of the processes of self-injury. I employ an embodied onto-epistemological methodology that …
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Online Self-Injury Forums, Social Support, And Psychological Distress
<p>Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavior being seen with increasing frequency among clinicians and the general population. Internet forums where people who engage in the behavior may discuss topics related to NSSI have become widespread. The effects of those websites on people who engage in …
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Predictors and Correlates of Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a dangerous and common behaviour, particularly among adolescents. Childhood trauma, insecure child-parent attachment, psychological distress, and impulsivity are some of the risk factors for NSSI that have been previously identified. However, the pathways from …
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Self-Injury in the Schools: A Survey of School Psychologists
… school psychologists in working with youth who self-injure. Self-injury (SI) is the socially unaccepted, deliberate, self-inflicted harm of an individual's body to reduce psychological distress, without the intention to die as a consequence. As SI is viewed as the "the next teen disorder" …
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Knowledge of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Populations That Self-Injure
… which examined knowledge about non-suicidal self-injury, or NSSI, in individuals who engage in various degrees of the behavior and those who do not self-injure. Knowledge about NSSI was measured in three groups of respondents: those with no history of self-injurious behavior (no NSSI group), …
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The prevalence and practice of self-injury: a sociological enquiry.
The widespread practice of non-suicidal self-injury suggests that it might no longer be reasonable to frame such behaviours as individual pathologies and highlights the need to understand such acts as sociological phenomena instead. This dissertation therefore explored the core elements of …
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Blades, Blood and Bandages: A Qualitative Investigation of Self-Injury
The perspective of the individual who self-injures has been under-represented in research. This study places the meaning of self-injury for these individuals at its core. People who self-injure can offer comprehensive and discerning insights into the behaviour. This study confirms the findings of …
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The development of self-injury as a multi-functional behaviour
In order to advance our understanding of self-injury this longitudinal study investigated the experiences of 25 adults who had used or were using self-injury. This was achieved by obtaining verbal narrative accounts of their experiences of using self-injury from its onset during childhood or early …
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School Counselors' Training, Knowledge, and Perceptions of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
… and levels of knowledge in regard to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), existing school prevention and protocol, resources and training opportunities available, as well as identified training needs. NSSI is the socially unaccepted, deliberate, self-inflicted harm of an individual’s body to reduce …
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The Effects of Response Restriction on Non-Socially Maintained Self-Injury
… protective equipment) on subsequent durations of self-injury with two female participants with developmental disabilities. First, a functional analysis was conducted with each participant to identify potential maintaining variables of the self-injury. Second, access to the response was …
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ADHD symptoms and non-suicidal self-injury in the college transition
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Effects of anger and impulsive traits on non-suicidal self-injury
1 PDF file (vii, 123 pages)
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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Risk: An Examination among Young Adults
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), which refers to the direct and deliberate destruction of bodily tissue in the absence of suicidal intent, is a serious and widespread mental health concern. Although NSSI has been differentiated from suicidal behavior on the basis of non-lethal intent, research has …
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